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We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.

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Alexandra Bracken
Age: 37
Born: 1987
Born: February 27
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Scottsdale
Arizona
Wanted
Nothing
Yesterday
Tomorrow
Change
Today

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Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.
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Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.
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Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.
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It feels like we should do something, he said. Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set her on fire. Let her go out in a blaze of glory. Chubs raised an eyebrow. It's a minivan, not a Viking.
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You are actually the worst person I have ever met.
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I can't make it fade.
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Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.
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Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.
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He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.
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You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it’s a slippery slope.
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Owain crossed his arms over his chest. I've gone straight. Only good, clean jobs for me now. So, in other words, North said, you're living in poverty?
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Forgive yourself, but don't forget
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He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.
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You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.
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No spinning, I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.
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I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now. All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.
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Everyone is just making the choices they think will help them get by.
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Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.
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I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.
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I don't want to just see someone's face I want to know his shadow, too. —Jude
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